− The two-dimensional linear stability of creeping plane Couette and Poiseuille flow of a viscoelastic fluid with viscous heating is investigated using a Galerkin-type Chebyshev collocation approach and a non-isothermal formulation of the FENE-P constitutive model. Viscous heating is observed to have a destabilizing/stabilizing tendency for Couette/Poiseuille flow at long to moderate disturbanc...

7 Abstract 8 A systematic investigation of the thermal decomposition of viscoelastic memory 9 foam (VMF) was performed using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) to obtain the 10 kinetic parameters, and thermogravimetric analysis coupled to Fourier Transformed 11 Infrared Spectrometry (TGA-FTIR) and thermogravimetric analysis coupled to Mass 12 Spectrometry (TGA-MS) to obtain detailed information o...

An isothermal boundary layer analysis is presented for the convection flow of a second-order non-Newtonian fluid past a two-dimensional wedge embedded in a non-Darcian porous medium in the presence of significant thermal radiation, surface transpiration and Eckert viscous heating. Nonsimilar numerical solutions are generated for the shear stresses and local heat transfer rates at the surface of...

non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of polypropylene (pp) and pp containing 0.5 wt% singlewalled carbon nanotubes (pp/swnt) were studied at various cooling rates using differential scanning calorimetry technique. the non-isothermal melt crystallization data were analyzed according to ozawa and cazé-chuah models. although ozawa model was successful in describing the nonisothermal crystalliza...

Isothermal and non-isothermal torrefaction characteristics and kinetics of microalga Scenedesmus obliquus (S. obliquus) CNW-N are studied using thermogravimetric analysis. The pyrolysis of S. obliquus CNW-N with increasing temperature is characterized by four-stage decomposition. Depending on the torrefaction temperature, light, mild, and severe torrefaction from the weight loss and the maximum...

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has been used to simulate laser fusion of ceramic precursors to prepare BSCCO high temperature superconducting materials. At fast heating rates, typical of the laser floating zone, the energy required for complete melting of the precursor increases with the Bi to Sr+Ca ratio, in agreement with the critical current results obtained. At low heating rates, s...

Abstract The effect of non-isothermal treatment in oxygen-containing air, via heating rates 10, 50, and 1000 °C/min until °C followed by furnace cooling to room temperature on oxides formed directed laser energy additively fabricated IN718 was studied. Another set samples heated up using the same were isothermally held at for 1 hr temperature. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicated presence...

Microwave sintering (MWS) of commercially available 15-nm-size nanocrystalline TiN powder was studied. Densification kinetics and grain growth mechanisms of nano-TiN were evaluated using non-isothermal heating up to 1500 °C with variable heating rates. A true nanocrystalline ceramic with ~80-nm-size grains and 94.5 % theoretical density was obtained via MWS consolidation at 1400 °C. At higher t...

Cellulose, chitin and chitosan are the most abundant biopolymer on earth and constitute an important class of biodegradable materials. The decomposition of three major biopolymers viz. chitin, chitosan and cellulose are studied using simultaneous thermal analysis i.e. thermogravimetry/differential thermal analyzer (TG/DTA). Thermal analysis is performed from ambient temperature to 700 °C in a f...